KANSAS CITY, Missouri (CNN) — For the last few weeks, Marisol Sanchez took pains to drive miles out of her way to avoid highways in the Kansas City, Missouri, area.

On Thursday, she said she was breathing a little bit easier.

Police Chief Darryl Forte announced Thursday night that a man has been taken into custody in connection with as many as 20 highway shootings in the Kansas City area that began in early March. At least 12 of the shootings are connected, police said.

The suspect’s name won’t be released until charges have been filed. A news conference is scheduled for Friday.

Three people have been shot, but there have been no life-threatening injuries.

Jennie Baugher was driving along U.S. 71 when she heard something hit her car, like a rock. But it was much more lethal.

“I thought a big rock hit us,” said the married mother of two from Roeland Park, Kansas. “My husband saw it the next day. Immediately when he told me that there was a hole in my car, I realized a bullet hit my car.”

The first shooting victim, Tom McFarlin, said he thinks the shots came from a moving car on one of the ramps or overpasses.

“It was exactly where the highway splits,” he said.

McFarlin was headed home to Lee’s Summit, Missouri, on Interstate 470 south after watching his son’s basketball game. Like Baugher, his car was shot in the evening, around 8:30. When he took his car to mechanics a few days later, they discovered not one, but two bullets. The second one was lodged in the undercarriage.

Both cars were hit in the rear on the passenger’s side. The bullets lodged in metal and did not make it inside. In McFarlin’s case, had the bullet made its way through the metal, anyone sitting in the passenger’s seat would have been hit.

Authorities offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case. The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives joined in the hunt.

Police increased their presence in the areas where the shootings occurred and asked drivers to remain vigilant and to report any suspicious activity immediately.